No need for field trips; we’re already at the zoo

by mathinaz

With twelve days left in the year, the kids are actually going insane. The day started with a student escaping from his elective class, taking off running across the field, and leaping the 8-foot fence to go home. This is while another teacher was in hot pursuit… both of them in a full sprint, with my entire homeroom cheering them on from P.E. class. Then two kids got in a physical fight IN a seventh-grade classroom during the next period. Then the cafeteria ran out of food at lunch and I thought there was going to be a riot. I had no personal classroom disasters, but my last two classes were just straight obnoxious and exhausting. By the last bell, my blood pressure was so high that I could feel it and probably should have just collapsed. I can’t believe we’re all expected to actually handle this for the next few weeks.